WGLT Program Guide, March-April, 2000
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Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData WGLT Program Guides Arts and Sciences Spring 3-1-2000 WGLT Program Guide, March-April, 2000 Illinois State University Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/wgltpg Recommended Citation Illinois State University, "WGLT Program Guide, March-April, 2000" (2000). WGLT Program Guides. 170. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/wgltpg/170 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arts and Sciences at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in WGLT Program Guides by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact [email protected]. You Get What You Pay For The Peoria translator: You have helped us enhance our signal to some parts of Peoria with 103.3 FM, expanding our audience and our listener support. With the GLT Spring Fund Drive coming up March 31-April 8, it is a very good time to The nitty gritty: Listener dollars purchased essentials like replacement tape recorders, remind you-and ourselves-just what it is thousands of GLT contributors have paid for headphones, microphones for studio and remote use and those all-important computers. over the past 5 years. With your help we have been able to maintain CD players, fax and copier machines, What you listen to: printers and all the other bits and pieces of technology that keep us up, running In July 1997, GLT started broadcasting 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. That never and growing. would have happened without listener support. Now, imagine GLT without all of the above: You have helped us add a wealth of new programs representing the very Pretty quiet, isn't it. best radio has to offer: THIS AMERICAN LIFE, BLUES BEFORE When the GLT Spring Fund Drive rolls around March 31-April 8, SUNRISE, ONLY A GAME, overnight jazz, THE LIVE remember what contributing members of GLT have paid for. You'll SHOW, THE OEAN OF GREEN, JAZZ PROFILES continue to get what you need from GLT-excellent information WITH NANCY WILSON and a second night of and entertainment every time you turn on the radio-but only if blues with Frank Black, The Delta Doctor. you and all the others who use GLT continue to pay for it. Thanks to you, GLT's award-winning news team has And if you listen to 89.1/103.3 FM but haven't contributed grown to become the second largest in McLean County yet? Think on this: what if all the folks who do pay for with three very talented reporters/hosts. what they get from GLT had taken your approach Your investment in the future of this public radio station over the past five years? Darn, there's that eerie rescued ALL THINGS CONSIDERED in 1995 and sustained it silence again ... into a new decade, right along with MORNING EDmON, When we ask you to call 309-438-8910 later this CARTALK, STARDATE, THISTLE AND SHAMROCK and month and pay for what you use, please pick up that WHAD' YA KNOW. phone and do your part. How good it sounds: Let us thank you for helping GL T evolve in to the fine community service Our main transmitter: Since 1995 your contributions have covered over it has become. And let us thank you for sustaining the service and the choice $35,000 in tower rent for the main GLT transmitter. only GLT offers into the new century. The main production studio: With your help GLT was able to totally rebuild Call 309-438-8910. You get what you pay for. .. our antique production studio, vastly improving the quality of our locally produced efforts. News gathering and production: Your support has helped make live remote broadcasts a reality with a mini-transmitter called a sMarti, helped us on the road to the digital *The fine folks listed on the cover of this guide have two things in common: they share reconfiguration of our news production studio for out of station newsgathering, and the names of famous people (as far as we know, GLT contributor Michael Jackson of purchased the Emergency Activation System warning service required by federal guidelines. Morton has no pet monkeys and usually wears gloves as a matched set) and they share the conviction that, in this life, you get what you pay for. They get a lot from GLT 89.1/103.3 and, as contributing listeners, they pay for the service they use. WGLT Program Guide is published bi-monthly by WGLT-FM Campus Box 8910, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-8910 These listeners get what they pay GLT celebrates young poets for. Here's why they support GLT duringlNational Poetry Month I and here's how you can too. special series on POETRY RADIO in mid-April For the second year in a row, WGLT is collaborating with the McLean County Arts Center Susan Callahan - Member since 1983 (MCAC) to celebrate the poetic talents of area youth. Last April, GLT broadcast readings by "Because listener support helps keep the station going, I don't have to listen to commercials the three winners of the MCAC's first ever poetry contest, "Under a Prairie Moon." and junk I don't want to listen to. That means when I tum on the radio I know I'm going to The poems were written by high school student Jeff Higgins of Minier, junior hear the program, the person, the music and the news I want to listen to." high school student Clare Scarberry of El Paso, and elementary school Your contribution through the mail is the most cost-effective way to make certain your student Chelesee Johnson of Bloomington. favorite program is there when you expect it to be. If you are due to renew your support this This year, the Arts Center ran its second poetry contest in spring, please do so as soon as you receive your reminder. February, in conjunction with a landscape exhibit by !SU David Allen - Member since 1998 alumnus and painter Michael Chandler. The winners of this year's contest will be aired on POETRY RADIO, 'Tm a news junkie and I really enjoy NPR and the emphasis that GLT places on providing GLT's thrice-weekly poetry feature (Sunday, Tuesday local news. I'm hearing things on NPR that I'm not hearing anywhere else ... things that I'm not even seeing in newspapers." and Thursday at 10:00 AM and 10:00 PM), during the week of April 9-13. Ring a bell with you? Then consider increasing your annual contribution or sending an additional gift in support of GLT's award-winning local and NPR news. Your increased Also scheduled for April is a reading at the MCAC by three poets whose work is often featured on investment will help ensure GLT's excellent news service is there when you need it. POETRY RADIO. The Arts Center will present Donna Nickels - Member since 1993 an evening of readings by POETRY RADIO "One of the best reasons to pledge to GLT is because commercial stations play commercials co-hosts Lucia Getsi and Bill Morgan, plus and I don't want to listen to those. So if I pledge some money to GLT, I can get a commercial local favorite Jim Plath (all three are judges free radio station." for the February youth contest.) As of press time for this article, the final date for the poetry If it's commercial free news, blues and all that jazz that keeps your preset on 89. l / 103.3FM reading had not been scheduled, but be sure to and you haven't yet contributed to GLT, call 309-438-8910. Your pledge of support helps keep that commercial clutter at bay. check out GLT's Arts Calendar, or the GLT web page at www.wglt.org for up-to-date Ray Coker - Member since 1997 information. "Without me, without my contribution, there's a possibility GLT may not be here. As I listen to it, I have a feeling that, hey, that music is because of me." Ray pretty much sums it up. GLT is here for you and because of you. You count on us for excellent information and entertainment. We count on you for financial support. It's a partnership we're proud to be part of. We still need volunteers to staff the pledge phones during the GLT Spring Fund Drive, March 31-April 8. It's easy, it's fun and we'll feed you! Contact Pat Peterson to reserve the shift that's best for you: 309-438-8910 or [email protected]. GLT Volunteer Profile: in to join the Friends of GLT. I was one of those first time donors that you would ring the bell for on-air. Mike Devore LK: That was always such an honor. You started volunteering in '94 and you went from Part of what makes GLT the hep, happenin', and hoppin' phoning in during the pledge drive to answering telephones. How was your first time? place that it is is the continual help of folks just like you MD: It was nice meeting the folks up at the station. As for the phones, it was kind of slow GLT listeners with a particular fondness for getting involved. when I was there the first time. Whether it's answering phones during the fund drive or manning the GLT booth at the Peoria LK: Yeah, that can happen. Such agony! Blues Fest, it's the dedication of the true blue GLT fans and volunteers who help make it all happen.